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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 12, 2011
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| US 07975378 | Dutta |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Banpil Photonics, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Achyut Kumar Dutta (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods for fabricating high speed metallic electrical interconnects for printed wiring board for high speed transmission of a data signal across an interconnect in a systems. The trench under electrical signal line is made using the separate dielectric layer having through holes opened through that said dielectric layer and aligned with electrical signal line. The layer with through holes aligned with electrical signal line sandwiched in between layer carrying the electrical signal line and a layer carrying ground conducting line for the case of microstrip-type transmission line. The two separate layers with the through-holes opened and aligned with the electrical signal line are needed for the stripline-type transmission line. Multi-layers board having high speed electrical signal lines can be made utilizing the configuration described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683356 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/830 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07975379 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); John S. Corbin (Austin, Texas); Paul Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Shawn A. Hall (Pleasantville, New York); Kathleen C. Hinge (Tarrytown, New York); Theron L. Lewis (Rochester, Minnesota); Frank R. Libsch (White Plains, New York); Amanda E. E. Mikhail (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | LGA connectors are fabricated with buttons or spring contacts preformed to different heights to accommodate the initial topography of a typical module or PCB of a particular product type. This is accomplished during fabrication by measuring topographies of mating surfaces of a first electronic device and of a second electronic device; fabricating interposer contacts to form opposing non-planar sides having respective inverse topographies for contacting the mating surfaces; and sandwiching the interposer between the first and second electronic devices with the opposing sides in contact with respective mating surfaces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462985 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/842 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07975488 | Farah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge L. Farah (Glastonbury, Connecticut); William G. Hoop (Tavares, Florida); Jose M. Cintron (Tequesta, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An exhaust duct assembly includes a cooling liner spaced apart from an exhaust duct case that articulate for use in a short take off vertical landing (STOVL) type of aircraft. The cooling liner assembly is attached to the exhaust duct case through a foldable attachment hanger system. The foldable attachment hanger system provides a low profile (foldable up/down) for a limited access installation envelope typical of a three bearing swivel duct (3BSD) which rotates about three bearing planes to permit transition between a cruise configuration and a hover configuration. In this way, each cooling liner segment may be formed as a complete cylindrical member requiring joints only between the swivelable duct sections. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/495930 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07975491 | Smisson, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Smisson-Cartledge Biomedical LLC (Macon, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hugh F. Smisson, III (Macon, Georgia); Richard G. Cartledge (Fort Lauderdale, Florida); David C. Field (Snellville, Georgia); Michael L. Koltz (Jacksonville, Florida); Frederick J. York (Longwood, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat exchange system selectably controls the temperature of a fluid being delivered to a patient's body by a pump device. The heat exchange system includes a thermal element and a heat exchanger that is removably coupled under pressure to the thermal element. The heat exchanger includes a first half made from thermally conductive material that correspondingly mates with the thermal element, a second half made from thermally conductive material opposite the first half, and an internal heat exchange zone existing between the first half and the second half, wherein fluid flows therethrough. The thermal element of the heat exchange system may controllably and safely warm and/or cool the fluid prior to delivery. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/835125 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/3.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07975532 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Landris T. Lee (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Perry A. Taylor (Raymond, Mississippi); Johannes L. Wibowo (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A transportable system and method for determining erodibility of a surface such as that of an earthen embankment. Select embodiments deploy an instrumented portable bottomless open channel test enclosure, either a manifold or an inlet to a flume, and sufficient piping and valves to provide a fluid flow over a surface of interest. Select embodiments use mounts, such as spikes, affixed to the bottom edges of the open channel to position the channel flush against the surface, thus reducing or preventing fluid leakage along the periphery. Select embodiments emulate a hydraulic open channel having smooth vertical sides as may be found in a civil engineering laboratory. Select embodiments incorporate an external pump, gauges for taking measurements while fluid flows through the channel, an inlet and an outlet and a re-cycling sub-system from the outlet to the inlet. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/267138 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07975555 | Zhuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiming Zhuang (Menasha, Wisconsin); Guruswami Ravichandran (Arcadia, California); Theresa Kidd (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for simultaneously measuring longitudinal and shear wave speeds in materials under load via echo or transmission is described. The apparatus comprises a housing with an open end, a closed end opposite the open end with a hole in the closed end, and a housing exit port. A spacer resides inside the housing, the spacer having a spacer specimen side and a spacer transducer side. A load transferring body having a transducer hole fits inside the housing and contacts an interior surface of the housing. An ultrasonic transducer fits inside the transducer hole of the load transferring body. A transducer depressing mechanism secures the ultrasonic transducer against the spacer transducer side, whereby users can simultaneously measure longitudinal and shear wave speeds of specimens inserted into the hole in the closed end of the housing and contacting the spacer. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/607838 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/778 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07975614 | Kuklinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kuklinski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A high velocity acoustic signal producing underwater shotgun system for dispersing a plurality of relatively small supercavitating projectiles over a wide spatial field at long range using the dynamics of cavity collapse for better target localization in underwater mine clearance. A typical supercavitating projectile design is enhanced to produce a two-staged projectile in order to accomplish this innovation. The first stage of the two stage design allows for the long range firing underwater typical of a supercavitating projectile while the second stage permits the coverage of a wide area with a plurality of small supercavitating projectiles just as the first stage projectile reaches its fixed range. A distinctive feature of the radiated noise from a supercavitating projectile contacting a solid object is used in conjunction with the two stage projectile design to provide a system for underwater mine clearance verification. The distinctive noise signal may also be used in conjunction with an underwater targeting system to help identify, localize and track targets as well. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/560528 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07975615 | Apple |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Apple (Suffolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is an aerosol search and rescue (SAR) grenade. A smoke signal is produced that is comparable to the smoke signal produced by a pyrotechnic grenade. An aspirating provides a propellant gas/air mixture to a reservoir of smoke material. A container configuration and gravity operated valve provide for a smoke plume only in the upward direction. The smoke grenade is useful in life rafts. It is also useful in inland areas posing a risk of fire. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/431111 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07975638 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Barnett Harris (Arlington, Virginia); Willard Sokol, III (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Robert J. Galway (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device to permit a water vessel to releasably capture a line. The water vessel may include a step cutout portion to receive a line capturing device. The line capturing device includes a device housing having a capturing notch and a pivotal guide arm. The guide arm may be pivoted to a deployed position. When presented with a line, a water vessel with the line-capturing device may capture the line by deploying the guide arm to guide the line into the notch, where the line is releasably latched. Also included is a system for towing a smaller water vessel to a parent vessel, the smaller water vessel including a device for capturing a line. The line may be attached at one end to the parent vessel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/378584 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/230.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976272 | Suciu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Lawrence E. Portlock (Bethany, Connecticut); Brian Merry (Andover, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A compressor for a turbine engine includes an inflatable bleed valve that selectively bleeds core airflow from the compressor. The bleed valve has an inlet leading from the compressor and a passageway leading from the inlet. An inflatable valve selectively obstructs the passageway based upon a controlled supply of high pressure air to the inflatable valve. The supply of high pressure air may be compressed core airflow from an area downstream of the inlet to the bleed valve. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/719911 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07976286 — Method and apparatus for pumping liquids using directional growth and elimination bubbles
| US 07976286 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Jin Kim (Beverly Hills, California); De-Sheng Meng (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for the pumping of liquids utilizes the directional growth and elimination of gaseous vesicles or bubbles to provide the motive or pumping force. In one embodiment, the pumping device is a microfluidic pumping mechanism having a channel, a bubble generator for generating a plurality of bubbles within the channel, and a venting membrane disposed over a portion of the channel downstream of the bubble generator. A one-way valve or directional resistance feature is positioned upstream of the bubble generator to introduce directional transport of bubbles within the channel. The method and device may be integrated into micro fuel cells with organic liquid fuel such that liberated gaseous bubbles may be utilized to deliver fresh fuel or circulate reusable fuel without any power-consuming components. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814162 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976309 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giles D. Jones (Chino Hills, California); Qingce Bian (Corona, California); Christopher A. Tomlinson (Vail, Arizona); Jeffrey E Decker (Moreno Valley, California); William W. Price (Upland, California); Bradley C Huang (Chino Hills, California); Peter M. Wallrich (Upland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a method for simulating damage inside a chamber in response to receiving a detection signal from one or more sensors outside the chamber. The method includes receiving the detection signal from the one or more sensors located outside the chamber in response to the one or more sensors detecting a simulated hit to outside the chamber. In response, emitting light from one or more light sources to simulate damage inside the chamber. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/553697 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976589 | Bunker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher E. Bunker (Kettering, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoscopic core-shell material additives for high temperature jet aviation fuels are disclosed. The nanometer dimensions of these core-shell material additives materials provide extremely large surface areas to promote chemical reactivity while permitting suspension in liquid fuels and providing unlimited access to all components of an aircraft fuel system. Core-shell technology involves additive encapsulation in a protective, fuel-mimicking shell material. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/434580 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Fuel and related compositions 044/354 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976654 | Stec, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Stec, III (Long Valley, New Jersey); Gartung Cheng (Edison, New Jersey); Brian E. Fuchs (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Gerard Gillen (Milford, Pennsylvania); Neha Mehta (Succasunna, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | High explosives suitable for filling very small volume loading holes in micro-electric initiators for micro-electro-mechanical mechanisms, used as safe and arm devices, are prepared from slurries of crystalline energetic materials including organic liquid and applied using various methods. These methods include swipe loading, pressure loading and syringe loading. The organic liquid serves as a volatile mobile phase in the slurry so as to partially dissolve the energetic material so that, upon evaporation of the mobile phase, the energetic material precipitates and adheres to the loading hole. |
| FILED | Friday, July 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/504988 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976696 | Ying et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jackie Y. Ying (Winchester, Massachusetts); Javier García-Martínez (Alicante, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to mesostructured zeolites. The invention also relates to a method of preparing mesostructured zeolites, as well as using them as cracking catalysts for organic compounds and degradation catalysts for polymers. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133879 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Mineral oils: Processes and products 28/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976727 | Naik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh R. Naik (Dayton, Ohio); Lawrence L. Brott (West Chester, Ohio); George D. Jia (Lock Haven, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This patent covers infrared phosphorescent materials which exhibit extended persistence lifetimes and are composed of mixtures of the elements zinc, antimony, gallium, tellurium, oxygen and nitrogen, and are doped with varying amounts of chromium, neodymium, dysprosium, yttrium or thulium. A typical formula is given by Zn(1-n %-m %-l %)SbxGa2-xTezO4+2z-yNy: n % Cr3+, m % P, l % Q, where Zn is zinc, Sb is antimony, Ga is gallium, Te is tellurium, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen. Additionally, x (0 to 2) y (0 to 0.5) and z (0 to 1) are the molar concentration in the composition. Cr3+ is the doped chromium ion, P is a codopant and Q is a second codopant and n, m, l are the concentration respectively (m,m,l are from 0.1 to 10). An example is the material ZnSbGaTeO5.95N0.05:3% Cr3+, 1% Nd3+, which has an emission peak at 760 nm and a persistent time of over 20 hours (measured with Fluorolog-3 spectrometer with a PMT detector). |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/862869 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.6R0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976765 | Hersam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois); Liam S. C. Pingree (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a nanoscale pattern on a substrate surface. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of providing a substrate having a surface; providing a nanoscale pattern forming device, comprising an elongated cantilever that has a tip portion proximate an end of the elongated cantilever; and controllably illuminating at least the tip portion of the cantilever with a beam of substantially coherent monoenergetic particles when the cantilever moves relative to the substrate to form a nanoscale pattern on the surface, wherein the tip portion of the cantilever is made from lightly doped silicon. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/180173 |
| ART UNIT | 1747 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976779 | Tai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Jun Xie (Pasadena, California); Jason Shih (Yorba Linda, California); Terry Lee (San Dimas, California); Yunan Miao (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic system with on-chip pumping which can be used for liquid chromatography and also electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and which provides improved efficiency, better integration with sensors, improved portability, reduced power consumption, and reduced cost. The system can include (A) a main chip comprising: a substrate having a front face and a back face; a chromatography column on the front face of said substrate, wherein said column has an inlet and an outlet; an electrospray ionization (ESI) nozzle on the front face of said substrate, wherein said nozzle has an inlet and an outlet, and wherein the inlet of the nozzle is microfluidically coupled to the outlet of the column; one or more pump systems on the front face of said substrate comprising a pump chamber, one or more electrodes, and an outlet microfluidically coupled to the inlet of said column; and (B) a reservoir chip comprising a front surface and a back surface, wherein the reservoir chip has one or more cavities in the back surface which when disposed next to the front surface of the main chip extends the volume of the pump chamber of one of the pump system. Microfabrication can be used to prepare the chips, which can be assembled with a cover and inserted into a testing jig for electronic control and mass spectral analysis. Peptide separations are demonstrated which compete with present commercial systems. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177505 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976791 | Doona et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Doona (Oxford, Massachusetts); Maria Curtin (Easton, Massachusetts); Florence Feeherry (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Satish Kandlikar (Rochester, New York); David Baer (San Antonio, Texas); Kenneth Kustin (San Diego, California); Irwin A. Taub (Framingham, Massachusetts); Barbara Taub, legal representative (Framingham, Massachusetts); Albert T. McManus (Floresville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, lightweight, easy-to-carry, reusable, durable, and environmentally-friendly assembly for sterilizing contaminated equipment using conditions of a chemical sterilant, heat, and humidity generated in situ without requiring external electricity, fuels, or other exogenous energy sources for operation. The carry assembly includes a plastic carry-case or insulated aluminum pressure vessel having an inner chamber for accepting microbiologically contaminated objects, a vessel disposed in the chamber for serving as a reaction chamber and/or boiler, a chemical combination which upon mixing generates at least minimally sufficient conditions of the sterilant, heat, and humidity to effect sterilization of the objects, and outlet valves mounted on the carry-case for controllably venting pressures above ambient air pressure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476701 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976832 | Braue, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernest H. Braue, Jr. (Whiteford, Maryland); Stephen T. Hobson (Lake Forest, California); Joseph D. Boecker (Baltimore, Maryland); Bryan M. Smith (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A topical skin protectant formulation containing a barrier cream and an active moiety for protecting warfighters and civilians against all types of harmful chemicals, specifically chemical warfare agents (CWA). The active moiety is an amine, polyalkenimines and/or derivatives. The topical skin protectant offers a barrier property and an active moiety that serves to neutralize chemical warfare agents into less toxic agents. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/429431 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976954 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Milko E. van der Boom (Rishon Le Zion, Israel); Seong-Sik Chang (Chicago, Illinois); Seng-Tiong Ho (Wheeling, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The preparation of robust, thin film materials with large second-order optical nonlinearities through the covalent self-assembly of chromophoric compositions and innovative use of silyl chemistry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/693816 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977089 | Wikswo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Wikswo (Brentwood, Tennessee); Franz J. Baudenbacher (Franklin, Tennessee); David Cliffel (Nashville, Tennessee); Frederick R. Haselton (Nashville, Tennessee); Eugene J. Leboeuf (Franklin, Tennessee); Ales Prokop (Franklin, Tennessee); Randall S. Reiserer (Nashville, Tennessee); Mark A. Stremler (Franklin, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioreactor for cultivating living cells in a liquid medium. In one embodiment of the present invention, the bioreactor has a first substrate having a first surface and an opposite second surface, defining a chamber therebetween for receiving the cells and the liquid medium. The bioreactor further has a barrier dividing the chamber into a first subchamber and a second subchamber, wherein the barrier has a porosity to allow the first subchamber and the second subchamber in fluid communication and allow at least one predetermined type of cells to permeate between the first subchamber and the second subchamber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/525549 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/305.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977136 | Ayazi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Mina Raieszadeh (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Pezhman Monadgemi (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are one-port and two-port microelectromechanical structures including variable capacitors, switches, and filter devices. High aspect-ratio micromachining is used to implement low-voltage, large value tunable and fixed capacitors, and the like. Tunable capacitors can move in the plane of the substrate by the application of DC voltages and achieve greater than 240 percent of tuning. Exemplary microelectromechanical apparatus comprises a single crystalline silicon substrate, and a conductive structure laterally separated from the single crystalline silicon substrate by first and second high aspect ratio gaps of different size, wherein at least one of the high aspect ratio gaps has an aspect ratio of at least 30:1, and is vertically anchored to the single crystalline silicon substrate by way of silicon nitride. |
| FILED | Saturday, January 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/319650 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977137 | Ebel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Ebel (Beavercreek, Ohio); Rebecca Cortez (Schenectady, New York); Kevin D. Leedy (Centerville, Ohio); Richard E. Strawser (Greenville, Ohio); Donald E. Strawser, legal representative (Greenville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for making a latching zip-mode actuated mono wafer MEMS switch especially suited to capacitance coupled signal switching of microwave radio frequency signals is disclosed. The single wafer fabrication process used for the switch employs sacrificial layers and liquid removal of these layers in order to also provide needed permanent physical protection for an ultra fragile switch moving arm member. Latched operation of the achieved MEMS switch without use of conventional holding electrodes or magnetic fields is also achieved. Fabrication of a single MEMS switch is disclosed however large or small arrays may be achieved. A liquid removal based fabrication process is disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/152130 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977154 | Koshka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yaroslav Koshka (Starkville, Mississippi); Galyna Melnychuk (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-aligned fabrication of silicon carbide semiconductor devices is a desirable technique enabling reduction in the number of photolithographic steps, simplified alignment of different device regions, and reduced spacing between the device regions. This invention provides a method of fabricating silicon carbide (SiC) devices utilizing low temperature selective epitaxial growth which allows avoiding degradation of many masking materials attractive for selective epitaxial growth. Another aspect of this invention is a combination of the low temperature selective epitaxial growth of SiC and self-aligned processes. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787144 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977224 | Hager, IV et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl Emmett Hager, IV (Dunkirk, Maryland); Michael Andrew Derenge (Columbia, Maryland); Kenneth Andrew Jones (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preventing the escape of nitrogen during the activation of ion implanted dopants in a Group III-nitride semiconductor compound without damaging the Group III-nitride semiconductor comprising: depositing a first layer of another Group III-nitride that acts as an adhesion layer; depositing a second layer of a Group III-nitride that acts as a mechanical supporting layer; said first and second layers forming an annealing cap to prevent the escape of the nitrogen component of the Group III-nitride semiconductor; annealing the Group III-nitride semiconductor at a temperature in the range of approximately 1100-1250° C.; and removing the first and second layers from the Group III-nitride semiconductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/327497 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/522 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977261 | Szczesuil |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen P. Szczesuil (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal barrier fabric includes an inner impermeable material layer, an outer impermeable material layer, a spacer material disposed between the inner and outer impermeable material layers, and a reflective layer of material disposed between the spacer and a selected one of the inner impermeable material layer and the outer impermeable material layer. The inner and outer impermeable material layers are bound to each other along portions thereof outboard of the spacer material and the reflective layer of material to define a closed compartment. The compartment is under a vacuum, such that the reflective layer of the fabric reflects thermal energy back toward the source thereof and the vacuum substantially prevents thermal energy transfer through the compartment. |
| FILED | Friday, August 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/503504 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/381 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977452 | Tomalia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dendritic Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald A. Tomalia (Midland, Michigan); Veera Reddy Pulgam (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan); Douglas R. Swanson (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan); Boahua Huang (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a cost effective process and new Janus dendrimers where at least two dendrons are attached at the core (with or without a connector group) and where at least two of the dendrons have different functionality. Preferred are those Janus dendrimers where at least one dendron is a PEHAM dendron. Thus these Janus dendrimers are heterobifunctional in character and use unique ligation chemistry with single site functional dendrons, di-dendrons and multi-dendrons. Also included are Janus dendrons which may be used as intermediates to make the Janus dendrimers or to further react with another reactive moiety. These Janus dendrimers can provide several new dendrimer moieties, namely: combinatorial libraries of bifunctional structures; combined target director and signaling dendrimers; specific targeting entities for diagnostic and therapeutic applications, such as for example targeted MRI agents, targeted radionuclide delivery for diseases such as cancer, and targeted photosensitive or radiowave sensitive agents. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/885244 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977615 | Prince et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy Prince (Cleveland, Ohio); Frederick J. Lisy (Euclid, Ohio); Mehul P. Patel (Streetsboro, Ohio); Jack M. DiCocco (Broadview Heights, Ohio); Reed Carver (Aurora, Ohio); Robert N. Schmidt (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A forebody flow control system and more particularly to aircraft or missile flow control systems for enhanced maneuverability and stabilization at high angles of attack. The present invention further relates to a method of operating the flow control system. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a missile or aircraft comprising an afterbody and a forebody; at least one flow effector on the missile or aircraft forebody; at least one sensor having a signal associated therewith, the at least one sensor being positioned to detect flow separation on the missile or aircraft forebody; and a closed loop control system; wherein the closed loop control system is used for activating and deactivating the at least one flow effector based on at least in part the signal of the at least one sensor. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800606 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977690 | Guha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Supratik Guha (Chappaqua, New York); Hendrik F. Hamann (Yorktown Heights, New York); Emanuel Tutuc (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for combining nanotechnology with photovoltaics are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a photovoltaic device is provided comprising the following steps. A plurality of nanowires are formed on a substrate, wherein the plurality of nanowires attached to the substrate comprises a nanowire forest. In the presence of a first doping agent and a first volatile precursor, a first doped semiconductor layer is conformally deposited over the nanowire forest. In the presence of a second doping agent and a second volatile precursor, a second doped semiconductor layer is conformally deposited over the first doped layer. The first doping agent comprises one of an n-type doping agent and a p-type doping agent and the second doping agent comprises a different one of the n-type doping agent and the p-type doping agent from the first doping agent. A transparent electrode layer is deposited over the second doped semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/544066 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977936 | Lillestolen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk A. Lillestolen (East Hartland, Connecticut); James Saloio, Jr. (Ludlow, Massachusetts); Ronald P. Bauer (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A resolver interface includes separate anti-aliasing filters for sine and cosine signals. The separately filtered signals are then time share multiplexed to a single analog to digital (A/D) converter. Because all of the inputs are fed through the same A/D converter, any error, difference or shift caused by the A/D converter is shared across al of the inputs. A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and processor are used to digitally filter, demodulate and compute position. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/252603 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/207.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977965 | Fleischer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce M. Fleischer (Bedford Hills, New York); Michael K. Gschwind (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for soft error detection in digital ICs is disclosed. The system includes an observing circuit coupled to a latch, which circuit is capable of a response upon a state change of the latch. The system further includes synchronized clocking provided to the latch and to the observing circuit. For the latch, the clocking defines a window in time during which the latch is prevented from receiving data, and in a synchronized manner the clocking is enabling a response in the observing circuit. The clocking is synchronized in such a manner that the circuit is enabled for its response only inside the window when the latch is prevented from receiving data. The system may also have additional circuits that are respectively coupled to latches, with each the additional circuit and its respective latch receiving the synchronized clocking. Responses of a plurality of circuits may be coupled in a configuration corresponding to a logical OR. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/723189 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977972 | Di et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jia Di (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Scott Christopher Smith (Rogers, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A Multi-Threshold CMOS NULL Convention Logic asynchronous circuit (MTNCL). The MTNCL circuit provides delay-insensitive logic operation with significant leakage power and active energy reduction. The MTNCL circuit is also capable of functioning properly under extreme supply voltage scaling down to the sub-threshold region for further power reduction. Four MTNCL architectures and four MTNCL threshold gate designs offer an asynchronous logic design methodology for glitch-free, ultra-low power, and faster circuits without area overhead. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771886 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978060 | Mandava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inteligistics, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Panduranga Rao Mandava (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alexander McCredie (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An identification system for recognizing at least one item signal emitting device operating at a first frequency and in operable communication with at least one item. The system includes at least one support member having a support surface for supporting the items thereon and a support member signal emitting device operating a second, different frequency in communication with the support member. The system includes a local signal recognition system with a signal receiving device in communication with the support member for receiving signals therefrom and a control device for receiving, processing and transmitting signals. A transferable local signal recognition system, as well as a networked identification system are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/352918 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978124 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl D. Cook (La Habra, California); Scott E. Adcook (Irvine, California); Mena J. Ghebranious (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to quantify the amount of radial platform motion of a portable sensor are described. In an exemplary embodiment, the method uses the frequency domain phase data in the range bin corresponding to a large stationary object. A correction factor is computed and applied back into the time domain samples prior to processing by Doppler filters used to measure motion in the scene. |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462366 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978130 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Coherent Navigation, Inc. (San Mateo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark E. Cohen (Washington, District of Columbia); Todd E. Humphreys (Half Moon Bay, California); Brent M. Ledvina (San Francisco, California); William J. Bencze (Half Moon Bay, California); Mark L. Psiaki (Brooktondale, New York); Bryan T. Galusha (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A practical method for adding new high-performance, tightly integrated Nav-Com capability to any Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) user equipment requires no hardware modifications to the existing user equipment. In one example, the iGPS concept is applied to a Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR) and combines Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites, such as Iridium, with GPS or other GNSS systems to significantly improve the accuracy, integrity, and availability of Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and to enable new communication enhancements made available by the synthesis of precisely coupled navigation and communication modes. To achieve time synchronization stability between the existing DAGR and a plug-in iGPS enhancement module, a special-purpose wideband reference signal is generated by the iGPS module and coupled to the DAGR via the existing antenna port. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/434026 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/357.560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978202 | Debevec et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Debevec (Marina Del Rey, California); Timothy S. Hawkins (Marina Del Rey, California); Chris D. X. N. Tchou (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A high dynamic range image editing system for editing an image file having pixels spanning a first range of light intensity levels in an image editing system that only displays differences in the light intensity levels of pixels within a second range of light intensity levels that is less than the first range of light intensity levels, without reducing the range of light intensity levels in the image file. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/347782 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/589 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978343 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Sun (Mountain View, California); John C. Schotland (Merion, Pennsylvania); Rainer Hillenbrand (Friedberg, Germany); Paul Scott Carney (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methods for nanoscale optical tomography based on back-scattering mode near-field scanning optical microscopy with a volumetric scan of the probe. The back-scattered data collected by a volumetric scan of the probe contains three-dimensional structural information of the sample, which enables reconstruction of the dielectric sample without other mechanical movements of the instrument. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/405449 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978394 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark B Johnson (Potomac, Maryland); Abdulhakem Elezzabi (Edmonton, Canada); Kenneth J. Chau (St. Albert, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic/plasmonic device is disclosed that uses a ferroelectric material and its magnetization state in order to affect the physical properties of electromagnetic waves. The magnetization state of the ferromagnetic material may either be zero or nonzero. When the magnetization state of the ferromagnetic material is non-zero physical properties of the electromagnetic waves are altered. This effect can be used to make switches and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/405756 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978403 | Brueck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alexander Neumann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Yuliya V. Kuznetsova (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide an image interferometric microscope (IIM) and methods for image interferometric microscopy. The disclosed IIM can approach the linear systems limits of optical resolution by using a plurality of off-axis illuminations to access high spatial frequencies along with interferometric reintroduction of a zero-order reference beam on the low-NA side of the optical system. In some embodiments, a thin object can be placed normal to the optical axis and the frequency space limit can be extended to about [(1+NA)n/λ], where NA is the numerical-aperture of the objective lens used, n is the refraction index of the transmission medium and λ is an optical wavelength. In other embodiments, tilting the object plane can further allow collection of diffraction information up to the material transmission bandpass limited spatial frequency of about 2n/λ. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/117334 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978483 | Mazzola et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Mazzola (Starkville, Mississippi); James R. Gafford (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Components, systems and methods for generating variable frequency AC voltage from a DC power supply are described. The components include a full-bridge (FB) parallel load resonant (PLR) converter which operates in discontinuous conduction mode. The PLR converter includes MOSFETs in an H-bridge configuration and employs a topology which minimizes inductance. The PLR converter can be coupled to a single or poly-phase bridge for use as an inverter. The inverter can be used to produce an AC sinusoidal waveform from a low voltage, high current DC power supply. Systems and techniques for modulating the output from the PLR converter to produce an AC sinusoidal waveform having desired characteristics, including frequency and voltage, are also provided. The PLR converter can also be coupled to a rectifier for use as a DC-DC converter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/352862 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978510 | Modha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Businesss Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Stuart S. P. Parkin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An active memory element is provided. A bipolar memory two-terminal element includes polarity-dependent switching. A probability of switching of the bi-polar memory element between a first state and a second state decays exponentially based on time delay and a difference between received signals at the two terminals and a switching threshold magnitude. |
| FILED | Sunday, March 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/395695 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978738 | Shaw et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie Brandon Shaw (Woodbridge, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A wavelength converter comprising an arsenic sulfide (As—S) chalcogenide glass fiber coupled to an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) crystal and a laser system using an OPO crystal coupled to an As—S fiber are provided. The OPO receives pump laser radiation from a pump laser and emits laser radiation at a wavelength that is longer than the pump laser radiation. The laser radiation that is emitted from the OPO is input into the As—S fiber, which in turn converts the input wavelength from the OPO to a desired wavelength, for example, a wavelength beyond about 4.4 μm. In an exemplary embodiment, the OPO comprises a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) crystal. The As—S fiber can include any suitable type of optical fiber, such as a conventional core clad fiber, a photonic crystal fiber, or a microstructured fiber. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/792838 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978821 | Glavicic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Glavicic (Indianapolis, Indiana); Pamela A. Kobryn (Westerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for measuring crystal orientation with an x-ray source using the Laue method and includes an apparatus for mapping a polycrystalline surface having a grain orientation. The apparatus including an x-ray source creating an x-ray beam, the beam having polychromatic photons, the beam collimated to a point on the polycrystalline surface. A two-dimensional x-ray detector with an aperture, the x-ray beam passing through the aperture, the detector detecting and collecting polychromatic photons diffracted from the polycrystalline surface and onto the detector. A means for moving the polycrystalline surface with respect to the x-ray source to collect a plurality of diffracted x-rays which define a Laue pattern. A data processing means to collect Laue patterns of the polycrystalline surface based upon the plurality of diffracted x-rays, the Laue patterns identifying a plurality of crystallographic orientations and a plurality of grain surface areas on the polycrystalline surface. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/370987 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978824 | Motz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Multi-Dimensional Imaging, Inc. (Tustin, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph W. Motz (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Donald R. Ouimette (Plantsville, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An x-ray tube assembly includes an x-ray tube envelope, a cathode assembly and a transmission anode assembly. The transmission anode assembly includes an x-ray generation layer and an anode substrate. The x-ray generation layer may be annular and mounted on a rotating disc-shaped anode substrate or cylindrical and mounted on a rotating and/or oscillating cylindrical anode substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/996010 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978950 | Christopher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | kSARIA Corporation (Lawrence, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Christopher (Andover, Massachusetts); John C. Briggs (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael Mucci (Upton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is provided for shaping an end of an optical fiber. The apparatus may include a frame and a clamp constructed to hold the optical fiber in a fixed location relative to the frame. The apparatus may further include a tip shaper supported by the frame and movable in a first direction toward and away from the clamp, and moveable in a second direction that lies in a plane transverse to the first direction to shape the end of the optical fiber when the tip shaper is placed in contact with the optical fiber. The apparatus may include an abrasive substrate which abrades the end of the fiber. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/883952 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979174 | Fregene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kingsley O. C. Fregene (Sicklerville, New Jersey); Michael R. Elgersma (Plymouth, Minnesota); Samar Dajani-Brown (Blaine, Minnesota); Stephen G. Pratt (St. Louis Park, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An autonomous vehicle comprises one or more sensors configured to obtain data regarding conditions which affect movement of the autonomous vehicle; a speed planner coupled to the one or more sensors and configured to calculate a desired speed based, at least in part, on the data obtained from the one or more sensors; and one or more actuators responsive to signals from the speed planner and configured to adjust the speed of the autonomous vehicle based on the desired speed calculated by the speed planner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133328 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979365 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Goldberg (Champaign, Illinois); Kumara Sastry (Champaign, Illinois); Xavier F. Llorá (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for creating a synthetic surrogate fitness function. User decisions are received representing fitness for a plurality of solutions. A partial ordering of the plurality of solutions is provided based on the received user decisions, wherein at least some of the plurality of solutions are represented to have a greater relative fitness than other of the plurality of solutions. A complete order of at least the plurality of solutions is induced based on the normalized partial ordering. A synthetic surrogate fitness function is generated using the induced complete order. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700989 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979446 | Malanoski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony P. Malanoski (Washington, District of Columbia); Baochuan Lin (Bethesda, Maryland); Joel M Schnur (Burke, Virginia); David A Stenger (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of: submitting reference sequences to a taxonomic database to produce taxonomic results; and reporting a taxonomic identification based on the taxonomic results. The reference sequences are the output of genetic database queries that return a score for each reference sequence. A method for processing a biological sequence obtained from an assay by: converting base calls located in a predetermined list of positions within the biological sequence to N; and determining the ratio of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the biological sequence relative to a reference sequence. Each entry in the predetermined list of positions represents the capability of a substance hybridizing to a microarray used to generate the biological sequence. The substance is not the nucleic acid of a target pathogen. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/617025 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/749 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979682 | Altman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik R. Altman (Danbury, Connecticut); Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to prevent livelock. An outcome of an event is predicted to form an event outcome prediction. The event outcome prediction is compared with a correct value for a datum to be accessed. An instruction is appended with a real event outcome when the outcome of the event is mispredicted to form an appended instruction. A prediction override bit is set on the appended instruction. Then, the appended instruction is executed with the real event outcome. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/051322 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979907 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew G. Schultz (Ithaca, New York); Eleazar Eskin (Santa Monica, California); Erez Zadok (Middle Island, New York); Manasi Bhattacharyya (Flushing, New York); Stolfo Salvatore J. (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for detecting malicious executable attachments at an email processing application of a computer system using data mining techniques. The email processing application may be located at the server or at the client or host. The executable attachments are filtered from said email, and byte sequence features are extracted from the executable attachment. The executable attachments are classified by comparing the byte sequence feature of the executable attachment to a classification rule set derived from byte sequence features of a data set of known executables having a predetermined class in a set of classes, e.g., malicious or benign. The system is also able to classify executable attachments as borderline when the difference between the probability that the executable is malicious and the probability that the executable is benign are within a predetermined threshold. The system can notify the user when the number of borderline attachments exceeds the threshold in order to refine the classification rule set. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/338479 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE42533 | Josypenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Josypenko (Norwich, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A quadrifilar helix antenna is provided having a feedpoint for the antenna connecting to individual helical antenna elements. A capacitive network, distributed along the length of the antenna, constitutes a variable frequency shunting network. At each position a first capacitive structure, that may comprise a single capacitor or multiple capacitors in series, interconnects a first pair of opposite antenna elements; a second capacitive structure interconnects the second pair of opposite antenna elements. As an applied frequency increases, the capacitive structures progressively short the opposite antenna elements thereby electrically reducing the antenna length. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/491534 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/895 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel); Brainsway, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abraham Zangen (Jerusalem, Israel); Yiftach Roth (Efrayim, Israel); Pedro C. Miranda (Lisbon, Portugal); David Hazani (Efrayim, Israel); Mark Hallet (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for transcranial magnetic stimulation, the system including a helmet, a positioning portion, a stimulator and a cooling system, are disclosed. The helmet includes a coil for deep brain magnetic stimulation. The coil has a base portion, and return portions, which may include a protruding return portion and a contacting return portion. The coil is designed to minimize unintended stimulation of portions of the brain, while reducing accumulation of surface charges. The coil is stimulated at several locations and/or at different times so as to focus the electrical field on a specific deep neuronal structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/153905 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976743 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoling Huang (Sugar Land, Texas); Patrick Kee (Houston, Texas); Robert C. MacDonald (El Cerrito, California); David McPherson (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides gas-containing liposomes. In particular, the present invention provide methods of generating gas-containing liposomes where the gas is introduced under pressure, as well as gas-containing liposomes which contain a large volume of gas (e.g., 10 ul of gas per 5 mg of gas-containing liposomes). In certain embodiments, the gas-containing liposomes contain nitric oxide gas. In some embodiments, such nitric oxide containing liposomes are used to treat a medical condition that is treatable by nitric oxide gas (e.g., intimal hyperplasia). |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/873256 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/4.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976779 | Tai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Jun Xie (Pasadena, California); Jason Shih (Yorba Linda, California); Terry Lee (San Dimas, California); Yunan Miao (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic system with on-chip pumping which can be used for liquid chromatography and also electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and which provides improved efficiency, better integration with sensors, improved portability, reduced power consumption, and reduced cost. The system can include (A) a main chip comprising: a substrate having a front face and a back face; a chromatography column on the front face of said substrate, wherein said column has an inlet and an outlet; an electrospray ionization (ESI) nozzle on the front face of said substrate, wherein said nozzle has an inlet and an outlet, and wherein the inlet of the nozzle is microfluidically coupled to the outlet of the column; one or more pump systems on the front face of said substrate comprising a pump chamber, one or more electrodes, and an outlet microfluidically coupled to the inlet of said column; and (B) a reservoir chip comprising a front surface and a back surface, wherein the reservoir chip has one or more cavities in the back surface which when disposed next to the front surface of the main chip extends the volume of the pump chamber of one of the pump system. Microfabrication can be used to prepare the chips, which can be assembled with a cover and inserted into a testing jig for electronic control and mass spectral analysis. Peptide separations are demonstrated which compete with present commercial systems. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177505 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976789 | Kenis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. A. Kenis (Champaign, Illinois); Joshua D. Tice (Urbana, Illinois); Sarah L. Perry (Champaign, Illinois); Griffin W. Roberts (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device for preparing a mixture, has a mixer. The mixer includes a plurality of chambers, each chamber having a volume of at most 1 microliter, a first plurality of channels, each channel fluidly connecting 2 chambers, a plurality of chamber valves, each chamber valve controlling fluid flow out of one of the plurality of chambers, and a first plurality of channel valves, each channel valve controlling fluid flow through one of the first plurality of channels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/177828 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/245.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976819 | Shih et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Hui Li (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Melissa Colleen Schillo (Broadview Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An economic, direct synthetic method for producing water soluble QDs that are ready for bioconjugation is provided. The method can produce aqueous QDs with emission wavelengths varying from 400 nm to 700 nm. Highly luminescent metal sulfide (MS) QDs are produced via an aqueous synthesis route. MS QDs are capped with thiol-containing charged molecules in a single step. The resultant MS QDs exhibit the distinctive excitonic photoluminescence desired of QDs and can be fabricated to avoid undesirable broadband emissions at higher wavelengths. This provides a significant improvement over the present complex and expensive commercial processes for the production of QDs. The aqueous QDs are stable in biological fluids over a long period of time. In addition, nontoxic ZnS QDs have been produced with good photoluminescence properties by refluxing the ZnS QD suspensions over a period of time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887224 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/561.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976846 | Subjeck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Subjeck (Williamsville, New York); Robert A. Henderson (Seattle, Washington); Elizabeth A. Repasky (Williamsville, New York); Latif Kazim (Amherst, New York); Xiang-Yang Wang (Buffalo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a stress protein complex and related molecules encoding or cells presenting such a complex are provided. The stress protein complex comprises an hsp110 or grp170 polypeptide complexed with an immunogenic polypeptide. The immunogenic polypeptide of the stress protein complex can be associated with a cancer or an infectious disease. The pharmaceutical compositions of the invention can be administered to a subject, thereby providing methods for inhibiting M. tuberculosis-infection, for inhibiting tumor growth, for inhibiting the development of a cancer, and for the treatment or prevention of infectious disease. The invention further provides a method for producing T cells directed against a tumor cell or a M. tuberculosis-infected cell, wherein a T cell is contacted with an APC that is modified to present an hsp110 or grp170 polypeptide and an immunogenic polypeptide associated with a tumor or with the M. tuberculosis-infected cell. Included in the invention are T cells produced by this method and a pharmaceutical composition comprising such T cells. The T cells can be contacted with a M. tuberculosis-infected cell in a method for killing a M. tuberculosis-infected cell, or with a tumor cell in a method for killing a tumor cell. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/103222 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976851 | Hodges et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Hodges (Denver, Colorado); Randall T. Irvin (Sherwood Park, Canada); Carmen Giltner (St. Albert, Canada); Erin Van Schaik (Edmonton, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a composition and method for preventing or inhibiting biofilm formation on biotic or abiotic surfaces. The composition comprises a peptide based on the C-terminal receptor binding domain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa type IV pilin, which binds to an abiotic surface (e.g., steel, plastic) with high affinity and prevents binding of a variety of P. aeruginosa strains to the surface. The inventive composition represents a non-toxic inhibitor for biofilm formation, particularly on an abiotic surface, which is responsible for a large number of problematic diseases and massive economic losses. The inventive method is useful as a safe and environmentally friendly means of modifying a surface of a variety of biomedical, nanotechnological, and biotechnological devices or articles. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/996379 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/260.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977049 | Sinclair et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Sinclair (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Kevin J. Bitterman (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for modulating the life span of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells and for protecting cells against certain stresses, e.g., heatshock. One method comprises modulating the flux of the NAD+ salvage pathway in the cell, e.g., by modulating the level or activity of one or more proteins selected from the group consisting of NPT1, PNC1, NMA1 and NMA2. Another method comprises modulating the level of nicotinamide in the cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/053185 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virco BVBA (Mechelen, Belgium) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Thomas (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and kits for the rapid exponential amplification of nucleic acid molecules using a padlock probe. The present invention improves upon the existing methods for amplifying padlock probes by eliminating or delaying the appearance of artifact products that cause false positive results, and also increase the sensitivity and speed of the assay. Further provided are nucleic acid amplification primers containing non-informative base analogs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/609436 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977060 | Zuker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by NIH (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles S. Zuker (San Diego, California); Nicholas J. P. Ryba (Bethesda, Maryland); Gregory A. Nelson (San Diego, California); Mark A. Hoon (Kensington, Massachusetts); Jayaram Chandrashekar (San Diego, California); Yifeng Zhang (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of sweet taste receptors comprising two heterologous G-protein coupled receptor polypeptides from the T1R family of sensory G-protein coupled receptors, antibodies to such receptors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and receptors, and methods of screening for modulators of sweet taste receptors. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/147415 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977077 | Frost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Frost (Okemos, Michigan); Jiantao Guo (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Enzymatic pathways for production of aminoshikimate, kanosamine, intermediates, and derivatives thereof; nucleic acid encoding and cells containing the enzymes; compositions containing aminoshikimate, kanosamine, an intermediate or derivative thereof; and use of the cells and pathways for biosynthetic production of aminoshikimate, kanosamine, intermediates, and derivatives thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700238 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977079 | Raines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Julie C. Mitchell (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas J. Rutkoski (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to altered forms of members of the RNase A superfamily. An RNase A can be modified to be cytotoxic by altering its amino acid sequence so that it is not bound easily by the ribonuclease inhibitor while still retaining catalytic properties. While earlier work had identified some modifications to RNase A that would result in cytotoxicity, the use of the FADE algorithm for molecular interaction analysis has led to several other locations that were candidates for modification. Some of those modifications did result in RNase A variants with increase cytotoxicity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/177229 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977098 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio); INSERM (Nantes Codex, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi Jiang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Jacques Le Pendu (Nantes, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a compound which competitively inhibits the binding of a norovirus with a native blood antigen of a human host, as well as a kit for determining whether an individual has been infected by a norovirus. Also provided is a method for determining the susceptibility of an individual to infection by a particular, known strain of norovirus. The invention is based on the determination that noroviruses recognize human blood antigens such as human histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs) as a receptor in seven specific binding patterns. The invention allows one to predict that a particular strain of norovirus can infect humans who have a particular human histo-blood type, as well as blood antigens that can bind the particular strain of infecting norovirus. The invention also allows one to predict that a particular strain of norovirus will bind with one or more particular histo-blood group antigens, but will not bind with other blood group antigens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264992 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/975 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977104 | O'Connor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. O'Connor (New Rochelle, New York); Galina I. Kovalevskaya (Bronx, New York); Steven Birken (Dumont, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of predicting pregnancy outcome in a subject by determining the amount of an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of hCG in a sample. The present invention further provides a method for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated molecular isoforms of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in a sample. The present invention also provides a diagnostic kit for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated hCG in a sample. The present invention additionally provides an antibody which specifically binds to an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of human chorionic gonadotropin. Finally, the present invention provides methods for detecting trophoblast or non-trophoblast malignancy in a sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/528883 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977120 | Glass et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Glass (Columbia, Missouri); Kristen Secor (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds of formulas I, II, and III, methods of making them, and methods of their use. The compounds of the invention can be used as fluorescent sensors, for example, to detect an amine-containing analyte in a biological sample. The compounds can be selective for one type of amine over others and the amount of fluorescence can be correlated with the concentration of the amine in the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/996878 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/800 |
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| US 07977320 | Ball et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward D. Ball (San Diego, California); Larissa Balaian (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for increasing the amount of active Syk protein kinase and or SHP-1 protein phosphatase in a cell. The compositions and methods are useful for increasing the efficacy of anti-neoplastic agents, such as those that target the CD33 protein, and which are used to treat leukemia. The invention thus provides for treatment of cancers, including leukemias. The invention also provides screening assays for anti-neoplastic agents in vitro. Methods of screening patients for responsiveness to anti-CD33 treatments are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/718127 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977365 | Hruby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siga Technologies, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon); Tove C. Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Sean Amberg (Corvallis, Oregon); Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Ryan A. Larson (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating viral infections, by administering certain novel compounds in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. Methods for preparing the compounds and methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are also disclosed. In particular, the treatment and prophylaxis of viral infections such as caused by hemorrhagic fever viruses is disclosed, i.e., including but not limited to, Arenaviridae (Junin, Machupo, Guanarito, Sabia, Lassa, Tacaribe, Pichinde, and LCMV), Filoviridae (Ebola and Marburg viruses), Flaviviridae (yellow fever, Omsk hemorrhagic fever and Kyasanur Forest disease viruses), and Bunyaviridae (Rift Valley fever and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever). |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/111778 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/394 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977366 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyunsil Han (New York, New York); Gang Lin (New York, New York); Carl Nathan (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of treating an inflammatory disorder in a subject with an effective amount of compound having the general formula (I) as described in the present application, under conditions effective to treat the inflammatory disorder. The present invention also relates to a method of inhibiting respiratory burst in neutrophils without inhibiting degranulation in or bacterial killing by the neutrophils by contacting neutrophils with the compounds described above. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/575683 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/396 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977384 | El Sayed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Louisiana at Monroe (Monroe, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalid El Sayed (West Monroe, Louisiana); Girish Shah (Monroe, Louisiana); Paul Sylvester (Monroe, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | In the specification and drawings a method of treating cancer is described and shown. The method includes delivering an amount of at least one compound to an area containing a cancer cell. A compound and a method of preparing a compound are also described and shown. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/337617 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977468 | Ji et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lin Ji (Sugar Land, Texas); John Dorrance Minna (Dallas, Texas); Jack Roth (Houston, Texas); Michael Lerman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Tumor suppressor genes play a major role in the pathogenesis of human lung cancer and other cancers. Cytogenetic and allelotyping studies of fresh tumor and tumor-derived cell lines showed that cytogenetic changes and allele loss on the short arm of chromosome 3 (3p) are most frequently involved in about 90% of small cell lung cancers and greater than 50% of non-small cell lung cancers. A group of recessive oncogenes, Fus1, 101F6, Gene 21 (NPRL2), Gene 26 (CACNA2D2), Luca 1 (HYAL1), Luca 2 (HYAL2), PL6, 123F2 (RaSSFI), SEM A3 and Beta* (BLU), as defined by homozygous deletions in lung cancers, have been located and isolated at 3p21.3. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932724 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977497 | Aneja |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nutrimed BioTech (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raijindra Aneja (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to natural and synthetic inositolphospholipid (IPL) materials, their preparation and applications. They provide compositions of the parent IPL comprising phosphatidylinositol (PI), PI-phosphates (phosphoinositides) and derivatives and analogues, and a process for their production starting from natural IPL. The embodiments further provide functional derivatives of PI for biomedical applications including a platform for drug design and delivery to therapeutic targets in the phosphoinositide mediated cellular signaling and allied cascades. The embodiments pertain to IPL having absolute stereo-structure. The embodiments further pertain to unique IPL and PI product compositions for defined applications, particularly pharmaceutical compositions for prophylaxis and treatment of diseases related to aberrant cellular and nuclear signaling mediated by PI and PI derived phosphates, and associated phosphoinositide specific enzymes including PI-PLC and PI 3-kinase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/912341 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Irving Weinberg (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly for detecting radiation is described. The assembly includes a host matrix with particles suspended within the host matrix. The particles are capable of generating a charge carrier upon interaction with the radiation. A first electrode is disposed adjacent to a first surface of the host matrix, and a second electrode disposed adjacent to a second surface of the host matrix. A power source operatively connects to one of the first or second electrodes. The power source establishes an electric field between the first and second electrodes such that a ratio of a mobility-lifetime-field strength product of the charge carrier to the thickness of the host matrix is greater than or equal to 0.1. A radiation detector and a method for detecting radiation are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/123412 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977648 | Westerly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Westerly (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas R. Mackie (Verona, Wisconsin); Ryan T. Flynn (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A modulator for ions such as protons employs multiple shutter pairs to create independently movable apertures effecting a multiple pencil beam treatment of the patient thereby increasing treatment speed by eliminating the need for a custom compensator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/305554 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/396.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977657 | Flynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan T. Flynn (Iowa City, Iowa); Thomas R. Mackie (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion radiation therapy machine provides a control of the range of the ion beam that a Bragg peak of the beam is located according to a determined gradient of the dose plan. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/439457 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979150 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chia-Ying Lin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Scott J. Hollister (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing biodegradable/bioresorbable tissue augmentation/reconstruction devices by defining material density distributions at selected time points during a material degradation lifecycle. These different density distributions are then superposed using general linear and/or nonlinear functions that could include both time and degraded base stiffness weighting factors. The material density distribution may be created using topology optimization, image-based design or computed aided design methods to create a degradable device that retains sufficient physical properties (ie modulus, strength, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity) through the material degradation lifecycle process. Thus, any bulk degrading material can be designed using this process for any tissue augmentation/reconstruction application. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/581424 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979258 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Goldberg (Palo Alto, California); Marshall Bern (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of a robust statistical method for self-calibration of a measuring instrument, such as a mass spectrometer, is disclosed. The method involves the use of differences in mass and complementary pairs for example, to estimate calibration parameters. Self-calibration of various mass spectra is described. Related systems and computer-readable media are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017383 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07975469 | Gonze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan); Frank Ament (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system that controls regeneration of a particulate filter is provided. The system generally includes a propagation module that estimates a propagation status of combustion of particulate matter in the particulate filter. A regeneration module controls current to the particulate filter to re-initiate regeneration based on the propagation status. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803679 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/274 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976282 | Livingston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamie T. Livingston (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Howard D. Driver (Greer, South Carolina); Sjef van Breugel (Enschede, Netherlands); Thomas B. Jenkins (Cantonment, Florida); Jan Willem Bakhuis (Nijverdal, Netherlands); Andrew J. Billen (Daarlerveen, Netherlands); Amir Riahi (Pensacola, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A spar cap for a wind turbine rotor blade. The spar cap may include multiple preform components. The multiple preform components may be planar sheets having a swept shape with a first end and a second end. The multiple preform components may be joined by mating the first end of a first preform component to the second end of a next preform component, forming the spar cap. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/627490 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976628 | Blount et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina); Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald C. Blount (North Augusta, South Carolina); Ronald W. Falta (Seneca, South Carolina); Alvin A. Siddall (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of manufacturing cement clinker is provided in which a clean supply of CO2 gas may be captured. The process also involves using an open loop conversion of CaO/MgO from a calciner to capture CO2 from combustion flue gases thereby forming CaCO3/CaMg(CO3)2. The CaCO3/CaMg(CO3)2 is then returned to the calciner where CO2 gas is evolved. The evolved CO2 gas, along with other evolved CO2 gases from the calciner are removed from the calciner. The reactants (CaO/MgO) are feed to a high temperature calciner for control of the clinker production composition. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/456613 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/739 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976686 | Elangovan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ceramatec, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Singaravelu Elangovan (South Jordan, Utah); Joseph J. Hartvigsen (Kaysville, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrolyzer cell is disclosed which includes a cathode to reduce an oxygen-containing molecule, such as H2O, CO2, or a combination thereof, to produce an oxygen ion and a fuel molecule, such as H2, CO, or a combination thereof. An electrolyte is coupled to the cathode to transport the oxygen ion to an anode. The anode is coupled to the electrolyte to receive the oxygen ion and produce oxygen gas therewith. In one embodiment, the anode may be fabricated to include an electron-conducting phase having a perovskite crystalline structure or structure similar thereto. This perovskite may have a chemical formula of substantially (Pr(1-x)Lax)(z-y)A′yBO(3-∂), wherein 0≦x≦0.5, 0≦y≦0.5, and 0.8≦z≦1.1. In another embodiment, the cathode includes an electron-conducting phase that contains nickel oxide intermixed with magnesium oxide. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781718 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976695 | Brecher |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee E. Brecher (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are disclosed for possibly producing pipeline-ready heavy oil from substantially non-pumpable oil feeds. The methods and apparatus may be designed to produce such pipeline-ready heavy oils in the production field. Such methods and apparatus may involve thermal soaking of liquid hydrocarbonaceous inputs in thermal environments (2) to generate, though chemical reaction, an increased distillate amount as compared with conventional boiling technologies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/792518 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mineral oils: Processes and products 28/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976787 | England et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diane M. England (Bloomfield, New York); Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved multiple-tube catalytic reformer comprising a tubular body containing a radiator core having a plurality of longitudinal cells for low-pressure flow-through of combustion gases, the core being formed preferably either by winding of corrugated metal or as an extruded metal monolith. A plurality of reformer tubes, preferably non-cylindrical, containing hydrocarbon catalyst are arrayed in longitudinal openings within the radiator core and preferably are brazed thereto to maximize heat transfer from the radiator core to the reformer tubes. During manufacture, the metal radiator core is economically bored by laser cutting to form the openings to admit the reformer tubes for brazing. Preferably, the reformer tubes are numbered, sized, shaped, and arrayed to minimize the longest conduction path in the radiator core to the center of any reformer tube. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/229179 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976805 | Sobolevskiy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoly Sobolevskiy (Orlando, Florida); Joseph A. Rossin (Columbus, Ohio); Michael J. Knapke (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx) in a gas stream (29) in the presence of H2 is provided. The process comprises contacting the gas stream with a catalyst system (38) comprising zirconia-silica washcoat particles (41), a pre-sulfated zirconia binder (44), and a catalyst combination (40) comprising palladium and at least one of rhodium, ruthenium, or a mixture of ruthenium and rhodium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/773052 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/239.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977054 | Johnson, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Monell Chemical Senses Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan T. Johnson, Jr. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alan Gelperin (Princeton, New Jersey); Cristian Staii (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Chemical field effect sensors comprising nanotube field effect devices having biopolymers such as single stranded DNA functionally adsorbed to the nanotubes are provided. Also included are arrays comprising the sensors and methods of using the devices to detect volatile compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/910070 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977102 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jurgen G. Schmidt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David B. Kimball (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Marc A. Alvarez (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Robert F. Williams (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Rudolfo A. Martinez (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds having stable isotopes 13C and/or 2H were synthesized from precursor compositions having solid phase supports or affinity tags. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818984 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977395 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuPo J. Lin (Naperville, Illinois); Michael P. Henry (Batavia, Illinois); Seth W. Snyder (Lincolnwood, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically and ionically conductive porous material including a thermoplastic binder and one or more of anion exchange moieties or cation exchange moieties or mixtures thereof and/or one or more of a protein capture resin and an electrically conductive material. The thermoplastic binder immobilizes the moieties with respect to each other but does not substantially coat the moieties and forms the electrically conductive porous material. A wafer of the material and a method of making the material and wafer are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288554 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977965 | Fleischer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce M. Fleischer (Bedford Hills, New York); Michael K. Gschwind (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for soft error detection in digital ICs is disclosed. The system includes an observing circuit coupled to a latch, which circuit is capable of a response upon a state change of the latch. The system further includes synchronized clocking provided to the latch and to the observing circuit. For the latch, the clocking defines a window in time during which the latch is prevented from receiving data, and in a synchronized manner the clocking is enabling a response in the observing circuit. The clocking is synchronized in such a manner that the circuit is enabled for its response only inside the window when the latch is prevented from receiving data. The system may also have additional circuits that are respectively coupled to latches, with each the additional circuit and its respective latch receiving the synchronized clocking. Responses of a plurality of circuits may be coupled in a configuration corresponding to a logical OR. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/723189 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978847 | Coffland |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas R. Coffland (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is disclosed for multimedia encryption. Within the system of the present invention, a data compression module receives and compresses a media signal into a compressed data stream. A data acquisition module receives and selects a set of data from the compressed data stream. And, a hashing module receives and hashes the set of data into a keyword. The method of the present invention includes the steps of compressing a media signal into a compressed data stream; selecting a set of data from the compressed data stream; and hashing the set of data into a keyword. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/405031 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979214 | Jarman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristin H. Jarman (Richland, Washington); William R. Cannon (Richland, Washington); Kenneth D. Jarman (Richland, Washington); Alejandro Heredia-Langner (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides are identified from a list of candidates using collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry data. A probabilistic model for the occurrence of spectral peaks corresponding to frequently observed partial peptide fragment ions is applied. As part of the identification procedure, a probability score is produced that indicates the likelihood of any given candidate being the correct match. The statistical significance of the score is known without necessarily having reference to the actual identity of the peptide. In one form of the invention, a genetic algorithm is applied to candidate peptides using an objective function that takes into account the number of shifted peaks appearing in the candidate spectrum relative to the test spectrum. |
| FILED | Friday, November 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/592610 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979372 | Hively |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee M. Hively (Philadelphia, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method and apparatus for simultaneously processing different sources of test data into informational data and then processing different categories of informational data into knowledge-based data. The knowledge-based data can then be communicated between nodes in a system of multiple computers according to rules for a type of complex, hierarchical computer system modeled on a human brain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/055515 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07975363 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Marietta, Georgia); William L. Hughes (Atlanta, Georgia); Brent A. Buchine (Smyrna, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A probe includes a substrate and a tetragonal structure disposed on the substrate that has four end points. Three of the end points are disposed adjacent to the substrate. A fourth of the end points extends outwardly and substantially normal to the substrate. In a method of making a probe tip, a plurality of tetrapods are grown and at least one of the tetrapods is placed on a substrate at a selected location. The tetrapod is affixed to the substrate at the selected location. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/136479 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/592.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976765 | Hersam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois); Liam S. C. Pingree (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a nanoscale pattern on a substrate surface. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of providing a substrate having a surface; providing a nanoscale pattern forming device, comprising an elongated cantilever that has a tip portion proximate an end of the elongated cantilever; and controllably illuminating at least the tip portion of the cantilever with a beam of substantially coherent monoenergetic particles when the cantilever moves relative to the substrate to form a nanoscale pattern on the surface, wherein the tip portion of the cantilever is made from lightly doped silicon. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/180173 |
| ART UNIT | 1747 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07976779 | Tai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Jun Xie (Pasadena, California); Jason Shih (Yorba Linda, California); Terry Lee (San Dimas, California); Yunan Miao (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic system with on-chip pumping which can be used for liquid chromatography and also electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and which provides improved efficiency, better integration with sensors, improved portability, reduced power consumption, and reduced cost. The system can include (A) a main chip comprising: a substrate having a front face and a back face; a chromatography column on the front face of said substrate, wherein said column has an inlet and an outlet; an electrospray ionization (ESI) nozzle on the front face of said substrate, wherein said nozzle has an inlet and an outlet, and wherein the inlet of the nozzle is microfluidically coupled to the outlet of the column; one or more pump systems on the front face of said substrate comprising a pump chamber, one or more electrodes, and an outlet microfluidically coupled to the inlet of said column; and (B) a reservoir chip comprising a front surface and a back surface, wherein the reservoir chip has one or more cavities in the back surface which when disposed next to the front surface of the main chip extends the volume of the pump chamber of one of the pump system. Microfabrication can be used to prepare the chips, which can be assembled with a cover and inserted into a testing jig for electronic control and mass spectral analysis. Peptide separations are demonstrated which compete with present commercial systems. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177505 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/70 |
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| US 07976816 | Khabashesku et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Haiqing Peng (Houston, Texas); John L. Margrave (Bellaire, Texas); Mary Lou Margrave, legal representative (Bellaire, Texas); Wilbur Edward Billups (Houston, Texas); Yunming Ying (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for functionalizing the wall of single-wall or multi-wall carbon nanotubes involves the use of acyl peroxides to generate carbon-centered free radicals. The method allows for the chemical attachment of a variety of functional groups to the wall or end cap of carbon nanotubes through covalent carbon bonds without destroying the wall or endcap structure of the nanotube. Carbon-centered radicals generated from acyl peroxides can have terminal functional groups that provide sites for further reaction with other compounds. Organic groups with terminal carboxylic acid functionality can be converted to an acyl chloride and further reacted with an amine to form an amide or with a diamine to form an amide with terminal amine. The reactive functional groups attached to the nanotubes provide improved solvent dispersibility and provide reaction sites for monomers for incorporation in polymer structures. The nanotubes can also be functionalized by generating free radicals from organic sulfoxides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/778775 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
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| US 07976954 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Milko E. van der Boom (Rishon Le Zion, Israel); Seong-Sik Chang (Chicago, Illinois); Seng-Tiong Ho (Wheeling, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The preparation of robust, thin film materials with large second-order optical nonlinearities through the covalent self-assembly of chromophoric compositions and innovative use of silyl chemistry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/693816 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/450 |
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| US 07977054 | Johnson, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Monell Chemical Senses Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan T. Johnson, Jr. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Alan Gelperin (Princeton, New Jersey); Cristian Staii (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Chemical field effect sensors comprising nanotube field effect devices having biopolymers such as single stranded DNA functionally adsorbed to the nanotubes are provided. Also included are arrays comprising the sensors and methods of using the devices to detect volatile compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/910070 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07977573 | Painter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Painter (Tallahassee, Florida); Ting Xu (Tallahassee, Florida); Scott Bole (Tallahassee, Florida); Todd Adkins (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A cable-in-conduit-conductor (CICC) joint for use with a hybrid magnet. An elongate copper member is disposed in sandwiched relation between a first and second cable that are disposed in parallel, spaced apart relation to one another. A first elongate member is disposed in overlying relation to the first cable and a second elongate member is disposed in underlying relation to the second cable. All of the parts are positioned within a joint box, and the joint box is sandwiched between first and second flat plates that are interconnected to one another by elongate bolts. Tightening the bolts compresses the parts within the joint box. A heat treatment completes the solderless joint. |
| FILED | Monday, August 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/542308 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/88.R00 |
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| US 07977668 | Nevirkovets et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Nevirkovets (Evanston, Illinois); John Ketterson (Evanston, Illinois); Oleksandr Chernyashevskyy (Evanston, Illinois); Serhii Shafraniuk (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A multilayer structure with zirconium-oxide tunnel barriers. In one embodiment, the multilayer structure includes a first niobium (Nb) layer, a second niobium (Nb) layer, and a plurality of zirconium-oxide tunnel barriers sandwiched between the first niobium (Nb) layer and the second niobium (Nb) layer, wherein the plurality of zirconium-oxide tunnel barriers is formed with N layers of zirconium-oxide, N being an integer greater than 1, and M layers of zirconium, M being an integer no less than N, such that between any two neighboring layers of zirconium-oxide, a layer of zirconium is sandwiched therebetween. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/126726 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978343 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Sun (Mountain View, California); John C. Schotland (Merion, Pennsylvania); Rainer Hillenbrand (Friedberg, Germany); Paul Scott Carney (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methods for nanoscale optical tomography based on back-scattering mode near-field scanning optical microscopy with a volumetric scan of the probe. The back-scattered data collected by a volumetric scan of the probe contains three-dimensional structural information of the sample, which enables reconstruction of the dielectric sample without other mechanical movements of the instrument. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/405449 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978416 | Crosby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred J. Crosby (Amherst, Massachusetts); Edwin P. Chan (Montgomery Village, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating spontaneously aligned surface wrinkles utilizes control of local moduli-mismatch and osmotic pressure. The method includes modifying the surface of an elastomeric layer to form a superlayer that is stiffer and/or less absorbent than the elastomeric layer. The elastomeric layer is then swollen with a polymerizable monomer, which causes buckling of the superlayer. The monomer is then polymerized, dimensionally stabilizing the surface buckling. The buckled surfaces generated by the method are useful in a wide variety of end-use applications, including microlenses, microlens arrays, compound microlenses, diffraction gratings, photonic crystals, smart adhesives, mechanical strain sensors, microfluidic devices, and cell culture surfaces. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/943986 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/642 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978814 | Sommer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spectramet, LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Sommer (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert H. Parrish (Nashville, Tennessee); David B. Spencer (Bedford, Massachusetts); Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and process for classifying a piece of material of unknown composition at high speeds, where the system connected to a power supply. The piece is irradiated with first x-rays from an x-ray source, causing the piece to fluoresce x-rays. The fluoresced x-rays are detected with an x-ray detector, and the piece of material is classified from the detected fluoresced x-rays. Detecting and classifying may be cumulatively performed in less than one second. An x-ray fluorescence spectrum of the piece of material may be determined from the detected fluoresced x-rays, and the detection of the fluoresced x-rays may be conditioned such that accurate determination of the x-ray fluorescence spectrum is not significantly compromised, slowed or complicated by extraneous x-rays. The piece of material may be classified by recognizing the spectral pattern of the determined x-ray fluorescence spectrum. The piece of material may be flattened prior to irradiation and detection. The x-ray source may irradiate the first x-rays at a high intensity, and the x-ray source may be an x-ray tube. |
| FILED | Monday, October 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605623 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07976310 | Bachelder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Systems Technology, Inc. (Hawthorne, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward N. Bachelder (Redondo Beach, California); Dong-Chan Lee (Lawndale, California); Bimal L. Aponso (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides computer implemented methodology that permits the safe landing and recovery of rotorcraft following engine failure. With this invention successful autorotations may be performed from well within the unsafe operating area of the height-velocity profile of a helicopter by employing the fast and robust real-time trajectory optimization algorithm that commands control motion through an intuitive pilot display, or directly in the case of autonomous rotorcraft. The algorithm generates optimal trajectories and control commands via the direct-collocation optimization method, solved using a nonlinear programming problem solver. The control inputs computed are collective pitch and aircraft pitch, which are easily tracked and manipulated by the pilot or converted to control actuator commands for automated operation during autorotation in the case of an autonomous rotorcraft. The formulation of the optimal control problem has been carefully tailored so the solutions resemble those of an expert pilot, accounting for the performance limitations of the rotorcraft and safety concerns. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/332078 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977411 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martha K. Williams (Titusville, Florida); Trent M. Smith (Melbourne, Florida); James E. Fesmire (Titusville, Florida); Erik S. Weiser (Yorktown, Virginia); Jared P. Sass (Rockledge, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves composite materials containing a polymer foam and an aerogel. The composite materials have improved thermal insulation ability, good acoustic insulation, and excellent physical mechanical properties. The composite materials can be used, for instance, for heat and acoustic insulation on aircraft, spacecraft, and maritime ships in place of currently used foam panels and other foam products. The materials of the invention can also be used in building construction with their combination of light weight, strength, elasticity, ability to be formed into desired shapes, and superior thermal and acoustic insulation power. The materials have also been found to have utility for storage of cryogens. A cryogenic liquid or gas, such as N2 or H2, adsorbs to the surfaces in aerogel particles. Thus, another embodiment of the invention provides a storage vessel for a cryogen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/835233 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978312 | Scott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vibart Stan Scott (Westminster, Maryland); James Bryan Blair (Baltimore, Maryland); Luis R. Izquierdo (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A three-dimensional range imager includes a light source for providing a modulated light signal, a multiplexer, an optical fiber connecting the light source to the multiplexer, a plurality of optical fibers connected at first ends to the multiplexer and at second ends to a first fiber array, and a transmitter optic disposed adjacent the first fiber array for projecting a pixel pattern of the array onto a target. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/933492 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07978777 — Methodology and method and apparatus for signaling with capacity optimized constellations
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Constellation Designs, Inc. (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maged F. Barsoum (Irvine, California); Christopher R. Jones (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Communication systems having transmitter, includes a coder configured to receive user bits and output encoded bits at an expanded output encoded bit rate, a mapper configured to map encoded bits to symbols in a symbol constellation, a modulator configured to generate a signal for transmission via the communication channel using symbols generated by the mapper. In addition, the receiver includes a demodulator configured to demodulate the received signal via the communication channel, a demapper configured to estimate likelihoods from the demodulated signal, a decoder that is configured to estimate decoded bits from the likelihoods generated by the demapper. Furthermore, the symbol constellation is a capacity optimized geometrically spaced symbol constellation that provides a given capacity at a reduced signal-to-noise ratio compared to a signal constellation that maximizes dmin. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156989 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979209 | O'Hara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University Research and Technology Corporation (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles G. O'Hara (Columbus, Mississippi); Bijay Shrestha (Starkville, Mississippi); Veeraraghavan Vijayaraj (Knoxville, Tennessee); Preeti Mali (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A compositing process for selecting spatial data collected over a period of time, creating temporal data cubes from the spatial data, and processing and/or analyzing the data using temporal mapping algebra functions. In some embodiments, the temporal data cube is creating a masked cube using the data cubes, and computing a composite from the masked cube by using temporal mapping algebra. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279978 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979228 | Zurbuchen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Zurbuchen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Steven Rogacki (Chelsea, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Various techniques are described for high resolution time measurement using a programmable device, such as an FPGA. The timing may be triggered by any event, depending on the applications of use. Once triggering has occurred, a START pulse begins propagating through the FPGA. The pulse is able to propagate through the FPGA in a staggered manner traversing multiple FPGA columns to maximize the amount of time delay that may be achieved while minimizing the overall array size, and thus minimizing the resource utilization, of the FPGA. The FPGA timing delay is calibrated by measuring for the linear and non-linear differences in delay time of each unit circuit forming the staggered delay line path for the timing circuit. The FPGA achieves nanosecond and sub-nanosecond time resolutions and is used in applications such as various time of flight systems. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/176919 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979848 | Hinchey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Hinchey (Bowie, Maryland); James L. Rash (Davidsonville, Maryland); Christopher A. Rouff (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which, in some embodiments, a formal specification is pattern-matched from scenarios, the formal specification is analyzed, and flaws in the formal specification are corrected. The systems, methods and apparatus may include pattern-matching an equivalent formal model from an informal specification. Such a model can be analyzed for contradictions, conflicts, use of resources before the resources are available, competition for resources, and so forth. From such a formal model, an implementation can be automatically generated in a variety of notations. The approach can improve the resulting implementation, which, in some embodiments, is provably equivalent to the procedures described at the outset, which in turn can improve confidence that the system reflects the requirements, and in turn reduces system development time and reduces the amount of testing required of a new system. Moreover, in some embodiments, two or more implementations can be “reversed” to appropriate formal models, the models can be combined, and the resulting combination checked for conflicts. Then, the combined, error-free model can be used to generate a new (single) implementation that combines the functionality of the original separate implementations, and may be more likely to be correct. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/533837 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07977075 | Causey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas B. Causey (Gloucester, Massachusetts); Lonnie O'Neal Ingram (Gainesville, Florida); Keelnatham Shanmugam (Gainesville, Florida); Shengde Zhou (Dekalb, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides materials and methods wherein unique and advantageous combinations of gene mutations are used to direct carbon flow from sugars to a single product. The techniques of the subject invention can be used to obtain products from native pathways as well as from recombinant pathways. In preferred embodiments, the subject invention provides new materials and methods for the efficient production of acetate and pyruvic acid. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/235074 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07977083 | Sakakibara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshikiyo Sakakibara (Tsukuba, Japan); Badal C. Saha (Peoria, Illinois); Paul Taylor (Arlington Heights, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant microorganisms are useful for producing xylitol by fermentation of arabinose. The recombinant microorganisms are produced by transformation of host microorganisms with heterologous polynucleotide sequences coding for each of L-xylulose reductase, D-tagatose 3-epimerase, and L-arabinose isomerase, which transformants express the heterologous polynucleotides at a sufficient functional level to be effective to produce xylitol from arabinose. Production of xylitol is effected by contacting these recombinant microorganisms with a substrate comprising arabinose under conditions effective to produce xylitol from arabinose. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/827506 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/243 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoon Y. Lee (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A non crystalline or low crystallinity cellulose is able to be formed into a medicine tablet medium. A method of making a tablet of non crystalline or low crystallinity cellulose comprises providing cellulosic material, adding an effective acid in an amount effective to at least wet the cellulosic material, mixing the cellulosic material and acid under conditions effective to form an essentially uniformly wet condition, letting the mixture sit at ambient conditions for a period of time sufficient to form a viscous fluid, adding water or other diluent in an amount sufficient to lower the acid concentration and to form a slurry, dewatering the slurry, removing any residual acid from the dewatered slurry and forming the tablet. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/214661 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/56 |
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| US 07977535 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyung-Hwan Han (Okemos, Michigan); Jae-Heung Ko (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present inventions relate to compositions and methods for providing stress tolerant transgenic plants comprising a RING domain zinc-finger motif transcription factor protein. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions and methods comprising a RING-H2 domain transcription factor protein for providing drought and salt tolerant plants, in particular comprising a recombinant XERICO gene and protein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/484947 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/289 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07977267 | Gentleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Molly Maureen Gentleman (Niskayuna, New York); James Anthony Ruud (Delmar, New York); Margaret Louise Blohm (Schenectady, New York); Mohan Manoharan (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Ceramic materials with relatively high resistance to wetting by various liquids, such as water, are presented, along with articles made with these materials. The oxide materials described herein as a class typically contain one or more of ytterbia (Yb2O3) and europia (Eu2O3). The oxides may further contain other additives, such as oxides of gadolinium (Gd), samarium (Sm), dysprosium (Dy), or terbium (Tb). In certain embodiments the oxide, in addition to the ytterbia and/or europia, further comprises lanthanum (La), praseodymium (Pr), or neodymium (Nd). |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/340785 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/152 |
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Government Rights Acknowledged
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); CompData Systems, Inc. (Tarpon Springs, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Kearns (Tampa, Florida); James L. Fozard (Palm Harbor, Florida); Eleftherios Kostis (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of tracking and analyzing the movement of human subjects. UWB is used to track the location of all persons and/or physical objects (assets) occupying a defined area, giving their location with an accuracy of under twenty centimeters, their acceleration, their path, and a time/date-stamp for each observation. The system then uses artificial intelligence to detect variations in patterns of movement of designated individuals and movable physical objects in the defined space. The extracted patterns inform the design of intelligent methods to automatically track behavioral markers of movement. The system can be used to detect dementia in otherwise healthy human subjects and to identify changes in movement pursuant to medication or health changes and which may precede a fall or to detect proper movement in military training scenarios such as battlefield simulations. |
| FILED | Monday, March 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/396002 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/573.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07978115 | Veeder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenton T. Veeder (Winthrop, Massachusetts); Micky Randall Harris (Lompoc, California); Leonard P. Chen (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for converting an analog signal to a digital signal may include a plurality of converter stages. One of the converter stages may include a multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) and an analog-to-digital subconverter (ADSC). The MDAC may be configured to (i) receive from a previous stage a first residue analog signal and a first idealized digital signal representing a first portion of the digital signal and corresponding to the first residue analog signal; (ii) convert the first idealized digital signal to an idealized analog signal; and (iii) output a second residue analog signal based on the difference between the first residue analog signal and the idealized analog signal. The ADSC may be configured to convert the second residue analog signal into a second idealized digital signal representing a second portion of the digital signal and corresponding to the second residue analog signal, the ADSC comprising a sloping analog-to-digital converter. |
| FILED | Monday, July 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/497923 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979452 | Clausner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Clausner (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a method for retrieving task information using task-based indexes. The method includes an act of acquiring task-based categories and documents. Task-descriptive symbols are then associated with each task-based category. The documents are indexed to create an index having index words and pointers. The index words reflect the information in the documents and the pointers connect particular index words to particular documents or subparts of documents. The task-descriptive symbols are correlated with the index words to create an alignment of words having similar meaning such that index words are matched with similar task-descriptive symbols. The task-based indexes are formed by grouping the alignment of words with the respective task-based category. A user may use the task-based index by inputting task descriptive symbols into the task-based index to retrieve a document having task information pertaining to the task-descriptive symbols. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/404724 |
| ART UNIT | 2156 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07979607 | Caltagirone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Caltagirone (Tampa, Florida); Brett D. Oliver (Tampa, Florida); John Profumo (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method of operating a cascadable, instant-fall-through First In, First Out (FIFO) buffer is provided. The method comprises receiving a first data element at an input of a FIFO buffer which includes a plurality of buffer slices including an output buffer slice wherein each of the plurality of buffer slices comprise a data register and a control bit register. A buffer slice is identified which is indicated for storing a data element based on a control bit register for the buffer slice and a control bit register of an adjacent buffer slice on an output side. When data is read from an output buffer slice the FIFO buffer, all data in other buffer slices are shifted down one slice closer to the output side of the FIFO buffer. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/395275 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 12, 2011.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2011/fedinvent-patents-20110712.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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